My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view -- H. Fred Dale

Sometimes the garden offers some surprises! This Gerbera Daisy plant has not been flowering well for such a long time. I was so glad to see its flower stalk coming out from the centre of the plant last week. And this week, the bud opened...

The flower head is not as big as when I first bought it. Wonder how those growers did it? Mine is always smaller (including the leaves) than the original size!

I don't have a gardener because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots -- Justin Hartley

I used to have some bulb plants growing from this pot. Overtime, the bulbs are gone and this creeper appeared. I am calling it a weed. But since it is growing so wonderfully, I just didn't have the heart to pull it out. Anyone has this plant in the garden?

I grow my plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly is for the joy of seeing them grow -- David Hobson

The sight of blooms is always an attraction. I enjoy the process also. First a healthy plant then come beautiful blooms. The joy of seeing the plants grow is doubled when you don't really have care so much about them...I have enjoyed growing this Tacca chantrieri aka Black Bat Flower a lot. The plant not only flourish well, it flowers well also. And the best part is, I just need to ensure that plant has enough water. On several occasions the plant was droopy and lifeless but quickly regained its vigour after a thorough watering.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done -- Author Unknown
It has been raining in the afternoon almost everyday recently. The nights have been cool and wet. Hence, I usually skip my normal watering routine the following morning and check on my plants whenever I have the opportunity to do so.

My fake plant died because I did not pretend to water them -- Mitch Hedberg

Some gardeners like to have a fake flower or two in their garden. I was walking pass a house last week and saw a strange flower (not the pic below!) growing out from a cute little bush. At a split of a second, my friend and I concluded that it was a fake flower. We continue our walk and didn't think much about it. Actually many gardeners like to decorate their plants with plastic flowers. One of my neighbours hung up bright flower pots at their porch and those pots do get some attention. Some of my visitors do ask if they are real. What do you think of this kind of idea?The pic below is my Sandpaper Vine (Petrea volubilis) -- not fake at all, haha... Its brilliant blooms also get lots of attention :-) The true flowers in dark purple that include one petal (of five) with white splotch of certain calyces falls quickly leaving the light purple five-petalled calyx to grace the garden for a longer period of time.

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Some of you have left messages enquiring about plants featured on my blog. Many of these are actually not easily available in Malaysia. Perhaps that's why you were asking! Anyway drop me an email at mygreenfinder[at]hotmail.com :)